Get Me a Musician! | 2 Kings

[@DailyChristianAffirmations]

How, as a music worship leader, have I not heard of this verse??? 😯

[@ruthtablate5503]

Amen!

[@markf3494]

2 Samuel 6 and 22 - David danced and sang before the Lord. In the 6th chapter, David's wife Michal, daughter of Saul, thought it beneath a king to dance in front of people, that they would think him a fool. David rebuked her and said he was dancing to the Lord and he was willing to be even more foolish for God. Michal had too much of her father in her and couldn't see it is better to be a "fool" in God's presence than rule all the kingdoms on Earth!. In chapter 22, David's singing was praising God for all that God had done for him. Music, singing, dance... the arts can be for God's glory or not. As for me, I will dance as David danced and sing as David sang! Thank you Dr. Wright for another great teaching!!

[@autumnhardenstine8032]

During the darkest days of the Pandemic, I became a member of the Garden Congregation of Dean Robert at Canterbury. One of Dean Robert's foundational teachings was the importance of imagination and the arts as a way into the very heart of God. I had not thought that much about it - well I love music and singing but it goes beyond that, I think! Now, I hear you saying almost the same thing in a bit of a different way and am convinced that this is a learning I need to absorb in my life now. Times are very dark and scary, much like the four hours I spent in the closet during Hurricane Ian - it is a good time to call in the musician, the artist and the writer! Thank you for a wonderful meditation/teaching this morning!!

[@NTWrightOnline]

Good to see you again, Autumn. We agree that music opens up the wider imagination and can (re)orient us to the goodness and heart of God. Hope that your family and community continue to recover from the hurricane.

[@sherrywebber4013]

So glad to hear you made it through Ian, as my prayers were with ALL His children's safety during such a scary time!! I live in Pensacola & went through Frederick, Erin, Opal, Ivan, & Sally. It is an experience words can not describe... thank you Lord for letting me hear of Your protection of your children during Ian!! PRAISE YOU JESUS! Autumn my prayers are still with you. Now there's been time since he hit .... people are forgetting about ya'll... what does your community need now??

[@autumnhardenstine8032]

@@NTWrightOnline We are personally doing very well. Our community is slowly coming back together. But emotionally it has taken a toll. Sleepless nights, worry about even the little things, and fear that anytime it might happen again - probably all PTSD! Listening to music of evensong at Canterbury has helped - music does sooth the inner heart for sure.

[@PeterAlmenar]

Yes! That was a beautiful gift to all of us. I’m glad they saved those in KZbin.

[@GinnyShilliday]

Me too! Those Garden Congregation videos were wonderful.

[@jackieaustwick]

I have found over my life that music can reach into me into the depths of me and it frequently has a message or conviction within. Thank you Tom x

[@NTWrightOnline]

Yes, music is a true gift of God. Thanks for your encouragement. --NTW Online Team

[@MiniMFowler]

Thankyou Wright. Its so refreshing to hear about poetry , arts , culture.. to take time to appreciate and rejoice in the beautiful things created by God and man

[@NTWrightOnline]

Thank you for your thoughtful comment. It's wonderful to celebrate the beauty and creativity that God has inspired in the world. Blessings to you! --NTW Online Team

[@titusbrown9612]

Timely for me! I was getting discouraged as so many Christians were telling me the spiritual music of the minstrel was of the devil...that it had a hypnotic effect! I knew they were spreading misinformation, but I let it discourage me concerning the gift God gave me to be musically artistic...I ran from His gift, thinking it was useless to the Church...I now am soooo refreshed and encouraged to pick up my guitar again to write and sing! My very soul longs to be in the presence of the Lord through music!

[@NTWrightOnline]

May the Spirit fan into flame the musical gifts within you!

[@jessaraldea7754]

Thanks for sharing this, I was enlightened about the place of music in G-D'S communication to His people....

[@janetgeist8505]

I look forward to these lessons from week to week. Thank you for sharing this timely lesson of the arts. This reminder helps me while I’m doing my own arts and crafts not to think or feel guilty about it.

[@NTWrightOnline]

May the beauty you create with your craft bring you joy as it brings glory to God!

[@Spirit55]

Love to you Professor Wright. Your teachings are like poetry, and so digestible. Your teachings are expansive, and resonate with an elegant simplicity that make it easy to comprehend. I genuinely appreciate your offerings. You help me understand passages that are very difficult for me, and you encourage in me a greater confidence to keep persevering through scripture, despite the personal challenges. Peeking through your lens…the poetry within the pages of God’s word is beginning to sing to me as I expand my journey through scripture. Grateful for your free online access to your Reading Scripture Together series. It is such a generous help, and especially to those of us that are not enrolled in a Bible study course. Thank you for being an amazing teacher 🕊

[@NTWrightOnline]

Thank you so much for sharing your lovely reflections! We are so encouraged to hear how you are persevering in studying scripture, and that you've joined together with us here! We also have three free N.T. Wright Online courses: Reading Scripture in Public, Faith Working through Love, and Philemon. www.ntwrightonline.org/courses

[@crystalnegron9372]

Thank you so much brother Wright. I have been pushing the away dream of being a singer almost all my life. I have been discouraged in so many ways and because of this I gave up, but Lord has been speaking to me so heavily about me taking that step. Me still feeling insecure and unworthy; I was just about to give up again until the Lord brought me you. Thank you for encouraging me brother wright and I thank you Lord for sending my brother to help me . GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER WRIGHT 🙏🏾

[@NTWrightOnline]

We are glad to hear this reading of the scriptures together was encouraging! May the Spirit guide you in fresh and creative ways to sing and make music!

[@nehemiahsart9680]

This speaks so deeply to my heart. As an artist who also works on a church staff I could not agree more. Bravo! This is so well articulated and beautifully said. Thank you so much! P.S. One of the joys of my life is to have painted portraits of Christ during Easter services. The first time I did this, someone who was visiting the church for the first time told me that when she saw the painting unfold of Jesus coming out of the tomb, it was at that moment that she realized that He really is alive!

[@NTWrightOnline]

What an amazing story of God using your artistic gifts as you embodied and communicated the Good News!

[@vivianevans8323]

Another beautiful blessing at the end - thank you! Indeed, we need to hear, or want to hear, the music being played, the music which all creation plays and sings, to the Glory of God.

[@jopra49]

MUSIC has ALWAYS been a key to my heart and soul and mind. As a young child in the Choir at my church and then through HS, and later in a Christian ministry. MUSIC, the bridge connecting cultures and races all over the world, and to think, GOD, CREATED IT FOR HIS GLORY.

[@NTWrightOnline]

Thanks for sharing your love of music, which can draw us closer to God and one another, for the praise of his glory!

[@Ju.1578]

Amen! 30 minutes of your time and you can make sometime for him (The almighty). This goes to the believers and none believers as well. Thank you for that beautiful scripture! I think music saved my life. 🙏🏽🕊🤍

[@sherrywebber4013]

Oh YES Mr Wright!! Music is so VERY important 🙌 praise God for your most wonderful Monday mornings of encouragement and praise!! God bless you!! (I have listened twice already!!!)😘✨️

[@NTWrightOnline]

What were one (or two!) highlights for you?

[@sherrywebber4013]

@@NTWrightOnline I am so sorry but I thought I hit reply and instead I hit reply to the main comments. So my comment is in another section, LOL on a new comment.

[@PeterAlmenar]

Thank you for this lesson. More often than not a hymn or sing is my prayer when I can’t think of the right words to express what I want to pray. Great is Thy Faithfulness is a go-to prayer!

[@NTWrightOnline]

A wonderful prayer indeed!

[@juliearmstrong3278]

Makes complete sense to me. I love music and art

[@dovefooks]

Wow

[@pauljoannecharbonneau6266]

Bless you bishop Tom. It was music that nudged me into the Kingdom. Well said.

[@pjpayne91]

I only recently found this series and started listening in. As a musician, former member and leader of worship and a music therapist, I concur wholeheartedly. The Spirit can move in all areas of our being through music - physical, emotional, and spiritual. David was an early music therapist! Thank you for bringing that passage to our awareness.

[@NTWrightOnline]

Thanks for sharing. What a wonderful connection to make with David as music therapist!

[@channel20242]

Music is a universal language! Well read N. T. 😀 Thank you! Amen! 🙏

[@wangshangyew6122]

Thank for reminding us why we worship using music.

[@paulshoh4327]

Thank you so much…With all due respect, it is 2 Kings 3:15…I know it is good! Thank you again.

[@NTWrightOnline]

Thanks for noticing! The title has been fixed now!

[@NTWrightOnline]

Good catch, Paul. Thanks!

[@montezwalker3973]

I truly appreciate and enjoy NT Wright's teaching and commentary of the scripture.

[@lydiamalone1859]

My mother, a musician, used to tell me that music is her worship of God.

[@dottiewilliamson6323]

I was in band from 4 the thru my senior year and into college. Fully understand music

[@edieferguson8250]

This devotional makes so much sense to me as music can put you in a different state of mind where you don't think so much about the bad things happening in the world around you but can focus on the beauty that is in the world that God created. Thank you so much for these weekly gifts.

[@chuckbutler4854]

Thank you dear sir. This devotional thought is so encouraging. Let’s continue to step toward our musical instruments of inspiration, receive and bring forth the interpretive blending of God- breathed Scripture, with fresh melodies and prophetic lyrics for such a time as THIS! Let’s answer the call to be a ready writer and to sound out His voice again, instant in season and out of season whenever anyone says, “Bring me a musician!’. ” Chuck Butler

[@faitho2511]

Spot on, Dr. Wright. Music as mentioned in today's Bib!e verse sure helps create a welcome to the Holy Spirit so a person can hear God's or the Angel's soft messages.

[@jeanettecarr9355]

Thank you! I have not been aware of that scripture verse but, I have always been drawn to 2 Chronicles 20:21-22. It was as they began to sing and praise the Lord the enemy was defeated. I can attest to the fact that music has been key to my many encounters with the Triune God. Your devotional is brilliant!

[@NTWrightOnline]

Thanks for sharing your experience. Is there a particular piece of style of music that speaks to you?

[@dottiewilliamson6323]

Absolutely enjoying my study here, learning so much

[@NTWrightOnline]

Thanks for joining us!

[@alcy3581]

I never before did pay any attention to this passage. Thanks for letting me taste and see this inspirational Word. It was completely enlighting... Loved it

[@robbieendris3948]

I enjoyed this and I completely agree. I recall seeing a plaque with a reference to music as the speech of the soul. “For heights and depths no words can reach, music is the soul's own speech.” There are times that music breaks through in the way that only the heart and emotions can be touched. The will then follows.

[@mthomas73]

Amen 🙏🏿 thank you for that word

[@thewoutervanlooy]

Never heard this verse. Music has something mysterious

[@constancebeecher1896]

I loved this!

[@tickleroftheivories]

Wow. I was sent this video by a friend and, as a musician of faith, it is so wonderful to receive this encouragement and insight! Thank you!

[@NTWrightOnline]

We're happy to hear it was an encouragement! Would love to hear more about how music and faith connect in your life.

[@tickleroftheivories]

Well, I've started to write and share praise and/or worship congregational music over the past few years! Almost all my songs spring out of morning Bible reading wherein imagery or meter or even connections between different verses cause me to dart to my piano and computer and spill out whatever musical inspiration comes to me.

[@NTWrightOnline]

Thanks for sharing. You may have inspired others with this!

[@roenabarbre4156]

A wise man.

[@NTWrightOnline]

Thank you for your encouragement. We appreciate our community so much. --NTW Online Team

[@ianandalisonstewart4710]

God showed me clearly that my role was to draw people to the throne room, not to take them inside. That choice was not mine to make. On a more personal level I have been unable to sing for many years now but I know absolutely that it is my heart action that brings me to the throne of God. I can still sing in my heart.

[@NTWrightOnline]

What a beautiful and important perspective you offer after experiencing this personal loss. May the music of your heart both bring and be a blessing for God's glory.

[@sherrywebber4013]

In answer 🥰 to your question on my previous post to 1 or 3 things that struck me 🤔 ... I believe also that music brings down barriers & opens a way of reaching 🙌 others!!😃 My British husband was a musician and wrote wonderful Christian music. I used to remind him of the walls of Jericho came down with the musicians in front. A LOT of O.T. stories had the musicians in front as well as other cultures they fought. The arts indeed are important in life & many remain for years on end!

[@NTWrightOnline]

Thanks for sharing!

[@sherrywebber4013]

@@NTWrightOnline you're welcome 😊

[@yaoreipammk1623]

Dear Bishop, I often listened to your lectures and have started following your weekly reading scripture. I am very grateful to have found you on the internet. I have come to the UK from India for a month and would like to know if I can listen to any of your lectures in person the following month.

[@NTWrightOnline]

We're glad to have you sharing together with us in the weekly reading of Scripture! There are no public lectures scheduled the near future.

[@boastonlyinthecross]

“Bring me a mus… some TEA!! First, bring me some tea! Then, bring me a musician!” 1 Wright 7:1

[@jaimefarias1083]

Great explanation of that Biblical story. Yet, I just wonder, why Elijah didn't ask for a sculptor, artist, or poet? Why did he ask particularly for a musician?

[@NTWrightOnline]

Interesting observation! What do others think?

[@gjeacocke]

I think music can breathe life into something. a bit like God breathing life into us humans. you see this especially in the films soundtrack from movies on the big screen. even though you grasp what is happening on the screen, the music can in a way take you there perhaps. speaking in sounds - as in contrast to speaking in tongues. music can suggest abstract ideas or even go further than making use of words which seem to be overused, misused and abused. music can have authority: when a trumpet sounds, the congregation stands(usually). some words become redundent in church. we[the congregation] should be like soldiers eagerly knowing our orders. if congregations are ever to make a march in pubic as one I find music might zap those difficulties. for words between different denominations or even churches can encourage disagreement but music expects you to do. music plays - you get up and dance. there isn't no quarrelling.(in theory)

[@NTWrightOnline]

Yes, music often speaks to us in a different 'register' for communicating abstract concepts. It is also a way for us to communicate and encourage one another as Paul suggests in Ephesians 5:19.

[@joerosenfield3092]

Its been said that Bach wrote the 5th gospel.

[@roenabarbre4156]

Amen!